No. Neon was a software company. They sold a product called zPrime that allowed unauthorized usage of zIIP and zAAP for almost any kind of workload. IBM already runs much of DB2 on zIIP.
IBM only allows code to run on zIIP when you have specific contracts that allow you to for specific things. Neon either violated those, or more likely reverse-engineered it, which is almost certainly a violation of some other contract they were bound to. I don't know any details, but it's hard for me to see how that Neon thought they were going to get away with it. sas On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:42 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > Neon was a product to run some DB2 on zAAPs or zIIPs. Only the > workload specified by IBM could run on those processors. > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 5:45 PM Peter Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In a lawsuit against Neon Enterprise (John Moores) the court ruled in > favor of IBM. They had to take zPrime out of the market. There was also a > permanent injunction issued against Neon. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
